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Is this a serious question?

People don’t like that generative AI is based on stolen content. People don’t like that it’s being forced into everything. People don’t like that it isn’t even good at most of the things it tries to do. People definitely hate it’s attempts at ‘music’ and ‘art.’ People don’t like it’s immense energy costs. People don’t like that it might render them, and everyone else, unemployed. People don’t like that they’re owned by oligarchs.

Oligarchs invested trillions in the hope of firing ys all and no longer paying us wages. You need to get some class consciousness.

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lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
This is what frustrates me, the lack of any nuance whatsoever. I run local models, and am passionately against oligarchy. I don’t support them in the least.

My inner child still can’t get over how freakin cool AI actually is, at the technical level. And all anyone hears when I say how amazing the actual tech is, they tune me out and talk about whatever it is they’re trying to talk about.

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- dandi8@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  And who made your local models?
  
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  - Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    That's the rub. Local models have some positives, but overall the source for them is a negative. And the worst thing is, we can't fix that now. We can't undo what's been done, we can't start over with new data that is fair, and we can't seem to get AI out of where it's been jammed in.
    
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  - lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    What? I didn’t pay anything. I didn’t contribute to any oligarchy. What is your point by asking that question?
    
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- Footer1998@crazypeople.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  this is just the internet these days, people just go out in search of people to yell at so they can feel something
  
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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

People don’t like that generative AI is based on stolen content.

Long before AI, people on the Internet were fairly likely to dislike copyright and correctly insist that copying is not theft.

How the times have changed.

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- Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Stealing from rich person = good Stealing from poor person= bad
  
  Robin hood has been a thing for centuries
  
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  - schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I fail to see the relevance because both AI companies and other Internet users certainly sometimes (arguably) infringe copyrights held by rich people and sometimes those held by poor people.
    
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- sylveon@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I dislike copyright when it protects corporations.
  
  I think copyright is good when it prevents individuals from getting exploited by corporations.
  
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- Tree@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  i still do that,thats why idc that ai uses “stolen” content. bec i too pirate,if i can pirate then they can do it too.
  
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  - Addv4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Been pirating books for a while. And in doing so, found a few authors I really like, so I ended up preordering some of their books and even recommending them to friends. AI doesn’t ever preorder their books, and will probably not recommend them to random people without being paid to advertise by the author. Which is why the argument of, “I pirate, so what’s the difference if AI does it?” kinda falls flat in my mind.
    
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  - lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    you know how people pirating music did very little to hurt music sales, but how spotify has lowered the income of most of the world’s musicians?
    
    it’s like that.
    
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